Verdict with Ted Cruz - Reel Justice Redux

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00:00:05.520 Welcome to Verdict with Ted Cruz.

00:00:07.280 This is Ted Cruz.

00:00:08.340 I hope you're having a wonderful Valentine's Day.

00:00:10.960 I hope you find the love of your life and give them a hug,

00:00:14.600 give them a kiss, and let them know they mean the world to you.

00:00:18.720 Unfortunately today, Ben is sick in bed with a nasty flu.

00:00:24.540 So rather than do our normal pod,

00:00:26.640 what we're going to do is we're going to rebroadcast our Christmas Day pod.

00:00:31.020 And the Christmas Day pod was one, it's one of my favorites.

00:00:33.820 It recounted some of my favorite movies,

00:00:37.500 some of the movies I enjoy watching the most.

00:00:40.280 I am a movie guy.

00:00:41.440 I love movies.

00:00:42.520 I've loved movies my whole life.

00:00:44.300 And so I hope today on Valentine's Day, you listen to the pod, you enjoy it,

00:00:48.720 maybe go out and watch a movie and take your wife or husband or boyfriend or girlfriend

00:00:54.400 and have a great time at the movies, and we will see you.

00:00:59.100 We'll do our regular Week in Review tomorrow on Saturday,

00:01:02.280 and Ben and I will both be back.

00:01:04.540 God willing, the creek don't rise on Monday morning.

00:01:07.960 Enjoy.

00:01:09.100 By the way, you're a movie theater guy, just so people know this.

00:01:12.000 Oh, I like the real theaters.

00:01:13.460 I like the big screen.

00:01:14.620 I like popcorn and gummy bears and, you know, the experience of being there.

00:01:19.720 And by the way, I'm also rabid about staying until the very end,

00:01:24.600 until the last moment of the credits play.

00:01:26.380 I will not get up and leave.

00:01:28.240 There's a sense of completeness of appreciating the entirety of the movie.

00:01:33.580 And so what we decided we'd do today is put together just a compilation of movies

00:01:38.880 that I love, that I recommend to you.

00:01:41.980 And hopefully as you're taking some time with your family,

00:01:44.560 maybe you'll go watch one of them and laugh or cry,

00:01:47.180 and it'll touch you, and you'll enjoy it.

00:01:49.500 And I think art and storytelling are beautiful, beautiful things.

00:01:53.000 So with that being said, here are the big shows and the big movies

00:01:57.300 on Senator Cruz's list.

00:01:59.080 Merry Christmas.

00:02:00.840 I get asked all the time from many of you guys that are watching or listening right now,

00:02:06.000 what is Ted Cruz like behind the scenes?

00:02:09.360 So we thought we'd have a little fun.

00:02:11.160 I'm going to ask him some questions.

00:02:12.880 And you're even going to find out what his favorite movies are.

00:02:15.740 Senator, we're going to have a little fun.

00:02:17.760 I get asked all the time when I'm all over the country.

00:02:20.700 It happened this last week in New York.

00:02:22.540 So what is Ted Cruz really like behind the scenes?

00:02:25.820 And I say, I actually, if people got to see the side of you that I know,

00:02:29.860 you're actually really fun to be around.

00:02:31.900 You're also a huge movie buff as well.

00:02:35.560 And so I'm going to ask some fun questions just to kind of let people know

00:02:40.080 behind the curtain who you really are.

00:02:42.500 So let's start with this.

00:02:43.660 What is the last thing you watched on a plane?

00:02:47.800 What is the last thing I watched on a plane was Outer Banks, which is a series.

00:02:54.920 It's a teeny bopper series.

00:02:56.340 And it's phenomenal.

00:02:57.120 I am in the middle of season three.

00:02:58.940 And there's a reason I'm watching a teeny bopper series,

00:03:01.300 which is my youngest daughter, Catherine, loves Outer Banks.

00:03:04.740 She's at camp right now.

00:03:06.080 Yep.

00:03:06.280 And when I dropped her off at camp, she said, Dad, I want you to watch Outer Banks

00:03:10.480 and I want you to write to me in letters and tell me what you think as the season's progressing.

00:03:17.280 And so I've been regularly, I write to her about every couple of days and I tell her,

00:03:21.240 OK, here's where I am.

00:03:22.500 I'm at this point.

00:03:23.480 I'm at this point.

00:03:24.380 This character just died.

00:03:25.300 Who's your favorite character?

00:03:26.560 JB.

00:03:27.080 Yeah, mine too.

00:03:28.020 No doubt about it.

00:03:28.980 So she asked me that.

00:03:30.020 I'm a little troubled.

00:03:30.840 Her favorite character is JJ, who is kind of a, look, I guess if you're a 13-year-old

00:03:36.620 girl, he's, you know, he's always doing the dumbest thing imaginable, but he's kind of

00:03:40.860 a, I like John B. John B. is a good character.

00:03:43.740 It's such a fun show.

00:03:44.920 So when you were growing up, what was it that you were watching?

00:03:48.240 High school, college?

00:03:49.620 By the way, spoiler alert.

00:03:51.060 I apologize if you haven't seen it.

00:03:52.900 I'm going to give a spoiler alert right now.

00:03:54.340 So just fast forward through this if you don't want a spoiler alert.

00:03:57.100 But in season two, when Ward is blown up, I knew Ward was not blown up.

00:04:03.120 And so I wrote her.

00:04:03.920 I said, yeah, Ward just died.

00:04:05.600 I'm very confident he's alive.

00:04:07.260 And I remembered they keep scuba gear in the boat.

00:04:09.880 He got in the scuba gear.

00:04:11.160 And then like seven episodes later.

00:04:11.920 It's like Encyclopedia Brown books.

00:04:13.540 Remember those?

00:04:14.340 There you go.

00:04:14.740 You got to figure it out.

00:04:15.640 And you're like, they got to keep the series going.

00:04:17.960 So I felt pretty good that I was at least a step ahead of the Teenie Bopper series.

00:04:21.960 I like that.

00:04:22.960 So what were you watching in high school?

00:04:24.820 Like, what were your favorite shows?

00:04:26.300 What was your favorite movie growing up?

00:04:28.700 So look, I love movies.

00:04:30.060 My parents loved movies.

00:04:31.560 Like, we would, you know, this is what we do.

00:04:34.780 So every holiday, every Thanksgiving, every Christmas, my family would go out and watch movies.

00:04:39.020 Is Die Hard a Christmas movie?

00:04:40.280 Of course it is.

00:04:40.920 Okay, good.

00:04:41.560 Absolutely, yes.

00:04:42.300 There's only one right answer.

00:04:43.580 Okay, good.

00:04:44.100 Die Hard is absolutely a Christmas movie.

00:04:45.780 But we would go out and do movies when I was a kid.

00:04:49.480 When I was like eight, nine years old, my dad would drop me off at the theater all Saturday.

00:04:54.180 And I'd watch like five movies.

00:04:56.220 I'd go from one theater to the next to the next and just watch everything there.

00:04:59.840 It's, we all love movies.

00:05:01.640 So what I've done today for this show is I put together a list of 25 movies.

00:05:07.800 Now, this is not exclusive.

00:05:09.500 This is not the only 25 movies I like.

00:05:12.000 And I don't even know that it's my 25 favorite, but it's 25 awesome movies, which if you haven't watched, I recommend you watch.

00:05:19.380 You will enjoy them, you will laugh, you will be moved, you will get good things from them.

00:05:23.680 So let's go through the 25.

00:05:25.180 I've got to ask one more question before you're 25.

00:05:27.120 What movie have you watched the most in your life over and over again?

00:05:30.700 Well, that actually happens to be number one on the list.

00:05:32.760 I knew it.

00:05:33.300 I like this.

00:05:34.020 So my favorite movie of all time is The Princess Bride.

00:05:37.240 Really?

00:05:37.700 I love The Princess Bride.

00:05:39.480 Why?

00:05:39.740 I think every character in it is exquisite.

00:05:43.620 Every line from every character is fantastic.

00:05:47.160 I'll tell you, in college, we used to play a game called Drinking Princess Bride.

00:05:52.520 And so the way you play Drinking Princess Bride is you sit down with a bunch of college kids, you put the movie on,

00:05:57.680 and you try to say each line immediately before it's said.

00:06:02.640 If you get it right, you point at somebody they have to drink.

00:06:05.520 If you screw it up even slightly, you drink.

00:06:10.600 And if two or more people say the same line at the same time, everybody drinks.

00:06:15.380 So when you get to the As You Wishes...

00:06:16.300 So this is why you were so sober in college.

00:06:18.180 Now I understand it.

00:06:18.900 Look, when you get to the As You Wishes, everyone can get them so they're all socials.

00:06:23.460 And it is a fun game.

00:06:25.300 My problem is I know just about every line from the movie, but I'll screw them up slightly.

00:06:29.460 So I end up kind of getting myself because I try an awful lot of them.

00:06:33.240 But it is an exquisite movie.

00:06:34.820 I probably watched The Princess Bride, I don't know, a couple hundred times.

00:06:38.420 No way.

00:06:39.000 Yeah.

00:06:39.400 It is fantastic.

00:06:40.580 So that's number one on your list.

00:06:42.080 Far and away.

00:06:43.920 Number two on my list is The Godfather Saga.

00:06:46.660 Couldn't agree with you more.

00:06:47.640 One of the best series ever made, period.

00:06:50.500 And I'm not going to break it down between one, two, and three.

00:06:53.480 I even like three, which is a bit of a heretical idea.

00:06:56.480 I think three stands on its own as its own movie the least.

00:07:01.400 That three only makes sense in conjunction with one and two.

00:07:05.540 Which is when you're in the club.

00:07:07.040 I kind of like that.

00:07:08.040 Like you can't fake it and go see number three and think, oh, that was incredible.

00:07:12.880 You have to be in it.

00:07:13.900 And look, I quote all of them all the time, you know, from three.

00:07:17.940 Every time I get out, they keep pulling me back in.

00:07:21.220 I will say it was a little depressing with my team where I turned, you know, Senate staffers are all children.

00:07:29.700 You know, your average.

00:07:30.560 You should put that on a T-shirt.

00:07:31.920 Your average Senate staffer is like 23, 24, 25.

00:07:36.360 So things like Godfather quotes, they just don't get.

00:07:40.080 And so I said something.

00:07:43.440 I said, you know, this is the business we have chosen.

00:07:46.200 And like everyone looked at me confused.

00:07:48.620 And I said, okay, I have like six staffers there.

00:07:50.680 I said, all right, do any of you have any idea what I'm saying?

00:07:53.680 They're all like, no, no, no.

00:07:54.980 I said, okay, this is Godfather II.

00:07:58.500 And this is a conversation between Hyman Roth, who is clearly modeled after Meyer Lansky.

00:08:05.560 Hyman Roth and Michael Corleone, and they're down in Miami.

00:08:10.120 And Hyman Roth goes, Michael, I had a friend.

00:08:14.360 I had a friend since childhood.

00:08:16.820 Mo Green was his name.

00:08:19.360 And one day somebody put a bullet in his eye.

00:08:24.380 I did not ask who was responsible.

00:08:29.140 I did not seek retribution.

00:08:32.800 I said, this is the business we have chosen.

00:08:40.340 None of them had any idea what I was talking about.

00:08:42.600 Team building night in the Senate.

00:08:43.940 You should totally bring them in one, two, and three.

00:08:46.380 Just nine hours.

00:08:47.520 We're going to sit down.

00:08:48.120 Yeah, this is what you're going to do.

00:08:49.540 That's team building 101.

00:08:51.400 Monday, Tuesday, Thursday, Wednesday.

00:08:53.500 There you go.

00:08:54.120 All right.

00:08:54.480 Favorite line from any of the Godfathers.

00:08:56.440 The best one.

00:08:57.760 Mine's a cannoli.

00:08:58.520 Leave the gun. 0.94

00:09:00.140 Take the cannoli.

00:09:00.900 Yeah.

00:09:01.360 No brainer.

00:09:02.040 Number three on your list.

00:09:03.840 Scarface.

00:09:04.580 Really?

00:09:05.300 Oh, I love me some Scarface.

00:09:06.840 Why?

00:09:07.760 Notice Pacino has two spots in my top three.

00:09:11.480 I've seen a theme here.

00:09:11.940 I like Pacino.

00:09:12.880 Okay.

00:09:13.080 I love crime movies.

00:09:14.460 And look, Scarface, Tony Montana.

00:09:17.200 He's Cuban.

00:09:17.720 I'm Cuban.

00:09:18.240 It's, you know, it is larger than life.

00:09:22.640 I can quote a lot of lines from it.

00:09:24.540 To be honest, I'm not going to because they're pretty off color and I'm going to avoid putting 1.00

00:09:28.860 out on the podcast some of the language from it.

00:09:32.460 But it is.

00:09:34.920 So crime genre is your thing.

00:09:37.560 And I like Pacino.

00:09:38.900 Yeah, he's amazing.

00:09:39.680 So my favorite TV show is Criminal Minds.

00:09:42.200 I love Criminal Minds.

00:09:43.680 I'm actually shocked by that one because if there was only one box that I could take

00:09:47.720 with me my whole life, like if I was stuck on a desert island, it'd be West Wing.

00:09:52.160 West Wing is fabulous.

00:09:53.180 I've watched every episode of West Wing.

00:09:54.660 I've watched every episode of Criminal Minds.

00:09:56.280 But Criminal Minds is, I just find it fascinating.

00:09:58.760 Heidi hates it, by the way. 0.86

00:09:59.720 When Criminal Minds is on, she's like, turn that garbage off because, you know, you've got 1.00

00:10:03.100 evil, vicious murderers. 0.99

00:10:04.720 I'm like, no, no, they're the bad guys, though. 0.93

00:10:06.260 It's all about stopping them.

00:10:07.480 But she just doesn't like that in the house. 0.98

00:10:09.440 All right.

00:10:10.680 Number four.

00:10:12.260 Fletch.

00:10:12.700 Fletch.

00:10:13.300 Never seen it.

00:10:14.060 You've never seen Fletch.

00:10:15.620 Never in my life.

00:10:16.440 Okay, Ben, go home tonight.

00:10:17.580 What's it about?

00:10:18.220 And watch Fletch.

00:10:19.360 It may be the funniest movie ever made.

00:10:21.860 Really?

00:10:23.120 Chevy Chase plays Erwin Fletcher, an undercover investigative reporter.

00:10:28.360 It is absolutely hysterical.

00:10:30.060 I love Chevy Chase.

00:10:31.980 It's Chevy Chase's best movie.

00:10:34.020 Much better than Lampoon's Vacation.

00:10:37.640 Much better than, and he's done a ton.

00:10:39.440 I love Chevy Chase.

00:10:40.640 But Fletch is head and shoulders above them all.

00:10:44.380 You know Grant, who heads up my security detail.

00:10:47.180 Grant and I quote Fletch lines back and forth at each other every week.

00:10:52.600 Really?

00:10:53.060 Put it on the list.

00:10:53.740 It is go and watch the movie.

00:10:54.920 I've never seen it.

00:10:55.580 It is spectacular.

00:10:57.340 All right, Fletch.

00:10:58.000 I'm on it.

00:10:58.620 All right.

00:10:58.960 Number five.

00:11:00.240 Amazing Grace.

00:11:02.120 Also never seen it?

00:11:03.180 A lot of people have not seen it, but it is a very good, it is the true story of William

00:11:08.440 Wilberforce.

00:11:09.540 Now, William Wilberforce was a member of parliament in the United Kingdom who led the effort to abolish

00:11:15.400 the slave trade.

00:11:16.860 Very cool.

00:11:17.880 Is it a true story?

00:11:18.920 It's a true story.

00:11:19.240 And Wilberforce, so when he started as a young MP, the slave trade was the United Kingdom's

00:11:28.960 single greatest source of revenue.

00:11:31.220 It was their business.

00:11:32.800 And he begins as this young MP arguing, we must end the slave trade.

00:11:37.400 It is wrong.

00:11:38.280 It is immoral.

00:11:39.160 And everyone laughs at him.

00:11:40.780 And it would be like if you were in Texas standing up saying, we should ban oil and gas.

00:11:45.680 I mean, it was that absurd of an idea back then.

00:11:49.580 And he spends 50 years battling for it.

00:11:52.700 And the movie ends with him successfully championing and passing the legislation, abolishing the

00:11:59.220 slave trade and shutting down their most lucrative business because it was evil.

00:12:04.100 And by the way, the title Amazing Grace, you know where it comes from?

00:12:09.520 What?

00:12:09.840 So the person who wrote the hymn Amazing Grace was a friar who had been the former captain

00:12:19.540 of a slave ship.

00:12:22.360 Really?

00:12:23.460 He was the captain of a slave ship.

00:12:25.280 And think of the words of the song Amazing Grace.

00:12:27.800 Amazing Grace, how sweet the sound that saved a wretch like me.

00:12:33.180 I once was lost, but now am found.

00:12:35.800 Was blind, but now I see.

00:12:38.400 And imagine the person writing that.

00:12:41.760 In that context.

00:12:42.840 Was the captain of a slave ship.

00:12:44.620 Presumably he had murdered people.

00:12:46.400 He had beaten people. 0.88

00:12:48.140 He had whipped people.

00:12:49.460 I mean, you think of the evil entailed in being the captain of a slave ship.

00:12:55.320 And then the amazing grace that God offered redemption, even in the face of the horrific

00:13:03.120 evil, it puts a whole different character.

00:13:06.080 The book is by Eric Metaxas, who's a fantastic author, Christian author, does great biographies.

00:13:12.760 I highly recommend Amazing Grace.

00:13:15.700 Number six, Unforgiven.

00:13:17.820 Never seen it.

00:13:19.000 Oh, Unforgiven is fiction.

00:13:20.680 This is why it makes me laugh when we get to do shows like this, because I mean, I will

00:13:25.200 go watch these now.

00:13:26.460 Okay.

00:13:26.620 So Unforgiven, best Western ever made.

00:13:29.640 Won the Academy Award for best picture.

00:13:31.500 Clint Eastwood is in it.

00:13:32.540 I could I could do an age joke here.

00:13:35.160 Was it in black and white?

00:13:36.600 No, no, no, no.

00:13:37.340 It was actually late Eastwood.

00:13:39.180 You were actually out of diapers when it came out.

00:13:41.540 Okay.

00:13:41.840 Gotcha.

00:13:43.280 Morgan Freeman is in it.

00:13:44.760 Gene Hackman is in it.

00:13:45.820 Gene Hackman is spectacular.

00:13:48.340 What's interesting about Unforgiven that is so powerful is it turns all of the stereotypes

00:13:55.080 of the Western on its head.

00:13:56.340 So, for example, Clint Eastwood plays this outlaw who had turned over a good leaf and

00:14:05.820 was good and then was going back, gets hired. 0.94

00:14:08.900 What happens is a woman who is a prostitute is badly cut up by a drunk cowboy and they put 1.00

00:14:17.320 out a reward to kill the cowboy who cut her up. 0.99

00:14:20.680 And Clint Eastwood, as this retired outlaw, needs the money and so is coming to collect 0.99

00:14:27.640 the reward.

00:14:28.480 And Morgan Freeman, his partner, comes with him.

00:14:30.760 But there's a point where Clint Eastwood, you know, there's a young kid who wants to be

00:14:35.300 a gunslinger and he's like practicing on shooting fast.

00:14:39.140 And like Clint Eastwood says, well, you know, for me, this is about as fast as I can draw

00:14:46.540 my gun, point it, aim at it, pull the trigger and hit what I'm aiming at.

00:14:53.220 And he said in most firefights, people are scared out of their mind and they're just terrified

00:14:58.780 and whoever can kind of calmly engage is who wins.

00:15:02.760 And there's scenes where like everyone's like, oh crap, and they shoot their foot and they

00:15:06.300 drop their gun and they're like freaking out and he kind of, and he would just get 0.64

00:15:09.580 drunk and just sort of systematically bang.

00:15:12.980 And it, it really did invert many of the, the conventional wisdom of being a fast draw

00:15:20.360 on everything else.

00:15:21.180 And Gene Hackman's character is hysterical.

00:15:24.460 It is, he's the sheriff who initially you think might be the hero, but he very quickly

00:15:30.300 becomes an anti-hero.

00:15:32.500 So excellent movie.

00:15:34.160 Number eight, Team America.

00:15:37.380 I've actually seen it.

00:15:38.900 Hilarious.

00:15:39.440 Okay.

00:15:39.560 And I'm going a little edgy.

00:15:40.700 So Team America, Team America, World Police.

00:15:43.500 It's a puppet movie.

00:15:45.200 I remember when it came out and everybody was in shock, but I was dying laughing.

00:15:48.400 So Heidi doesn't like movies very much. 0.88

00:15:50.480 I took Heidi to see it.

00:15:51.680 She almost fell to the floor laughing. 0.98

00:15:53.880 So she, y'all clicked on that one.

00:15:55.380 It is screamingly funny.

00:15:56.940 Now it makes fun of both sides.

00:15:58.880 It makes fun of Republicans, Democrats.

00:16:01.520 Everybody.

00:16:01.940 It's the guys who do South Park who did it.

00:16:04.200 It is puppets.

00:16:07.120 They are truly equal opportunity offenders.

00:16:09.560 It is.

00:16:09.980 Now I'm going to give a warning.

00:16:12.120 Every third word is a profanity.

00:16:14.280 If you're offended by profanity, skip this suggestion.

00:16:17.780 I will say when we were fairly newlyweds, we went on vacation with Heidi's parents down

00:16:23.120 at Lake Powell, which is fabulous.

00:16:25.000 And we brought it with us.

00:16:27.600 And we sort of, like Heidi and I remember, this is really, really funny.

00:16:30.920 And I think we didn't quite remember that every third word is a profanity.

00:16:34.800 And I'm sitting there with Heidi's parents as we're listening to the blinkity blink, blink,

00:16:39.520 blink, blink, blink, blink.

00:16:40.980 We didn't finish the movie.

00:16:42.340 Like 10 minutes into it, we just turned it off.

00:16:43.940 Heidi, I can't believe you brought this in front of your parents, right?

00:16:46.620 Yeah.

00:16:47.220 It was, but it's still funny as all get it.

00:16:50.300 All right.

00:16:51.520 Next movie, Patton.

00:16:52.940 Yep.

00:16:53.380 Amazing.

00:16:54.680 Amazing movie.

00:16:55.620 I've watched Patton probably five, six times in my life.

00:16:58.580 All right.

00:16:58.820 Do you know what I did before every Supreme Court argument I ever did?

00:17:01.980 Well, I can figure it out now.

00:17:03.360 You watched Patton.

00:17:04.160 Not the whole thing.

00:17:05.280 Just which scene?

00:17:06.180 The opening speech.

00:17:06.960 Okay, yeah.

00:17:07.460 Just the opening speech.

00:17:08.660 George C. Scott in front of the gigantic flag standing up and saying, men, the objective

00:17:15.520 is not to give your life for your country. 1.00

00:17:18.040 The objective is to make that other poor son of a bitch give his life for his country. 1.00

00:17:23.620 I mean- 1.00

00:17:24.280 I can dig that.

00:17:24.860 I can dig that.

00:17:25.720 It is-

00:17:27.080 Sound advice.

00:17:28.280 If you can watch that speech and not be inspired, you're dead.

00:17:31.800 Yeah.

00:17:32.280 Like it is-

00:17:33.320 See, those are my weakness movies.

00:17:34.920 I love true stories.

00:17:36.660 I love good versus evil movies.

00:17:39.400 I absolutely love sports movies as well.

00:17:41.280 But there's always usually a big speech in those.

00:17:43.100 By the way, a buddy of mine collects historical military equipment and clothing.

00:17:48.040 And uniforms.

00:17:49.040 And he has Patton's dog tags.

00:17:51.340 No way.

00:17:52.240 And I actually have worn Patton's dog tags.

00:17:55.140 They have rested on my bare chest.

00:17:57.840 And I literally felt like I was ready to pull out a pistol and start shooting in an airplane.

00:18:01.760 Like it made you think about that that actually rested right above the heart of Patton.

00:18:08.160 That's incredible.

00:18:09.080 Pretty wild.

00:18:09.360 That's a good thing to own.

00:18:10.420 All right.

00:18:10.980 Next movie, The Sting.

00:18:13.360 Classic.

00:18:13.760 Have you seen The Sting?

00:18:14.880 You've never seen The Sting?

00:18:15.840 I don't even know what it's about.

00:18:17.540 Oh.

00:18:19.000 Oh, Benjamin.

00:18:19.960 Benjamin.

00:18:20.460 Benjamin.

00:18:20.740 The Sting.

00:18:21.620 All-time classic.

00:18:22.900 Robert Redford.

00:18:23.640 Paul Newman. 0.93

00:18:24.420 They're con men.

00:18:26.080 It is- 0.91

00:18:26.780 This is where I can really mess with me.

00:18:28.440 Wait.

00:18:28.760 Newman does something outside of like Salsa?

00:18:30.920 Like it.

00:18:31.680 It is hysterical.

00:18:33.460 It is beautifully done.

00:18:34.900 Go and watch this. 0.75

00:18:35.540 And what's it about?

00:18:36.500 It's about con men.

00:18:37.780 Okay.

00:18:38.160 And it's worth watching.

00:18:40.920 I've probably watched it a hundred times.

00:18:42.620 No way.

00:18:43.060 It's such a good movie.

00:18:44.660 All right.

00:18:45.540 Next movie, Awakenings.

00:18:47.520 Yes.

00:18:48.300 I've seen that.

00:18:49.220 Once.

00:18:49.720 Only once.

00:18:50.220 So Awakenings is fabulous.

00:18:52.060 Robert De Niro.

00:18:53.300 You're a De Niro fan.

00:18:54.440 I like De Niro a lot.

00:18:55.940 Not a fan of his politics, but a big fan of his acting.

00:18:58.140 He's a great actor.

00:18:59.400 Although as much, De Niro got all the acclaim, but I actually thought Robin Williams stole the show.

00:19:04.800 Well, I love Robin Williams, so this is right up my alley.

00:19:07.400 Robin Williams is one of my all-time favorite actors ever.

00:19:11.320 I mean, he's an incredible comedic actor.

00:19:13.900 So you're going to laugh.

00:19:14.600 I was asked the question if you could have dinner with like any five people who would be at your table, living or alive or dead.

00:19:20.640 I had Robin Williams for years in my list because I think he's just one of the most brilliant actors and genuinely funny human beings.

00:19:27.280 So when Robin Williams passed, I genuinely cried.

00:19:30.980 And I wrote a long statement about Robin Williams on Facebook that I put up.

00:19:34.500 But it just I hammered it out of my iPad because he he is so funny.

00:19:39.760 His stand-up.

00:19:40.740 If you've ever watched his stand-up routine on golf.

00:19:43.560 Yeah.

00:19:43.820 Oh, I've watched it a hundred times.

00:19:44.880 The one on golf is, again, profane, language warning.

00:19:48.320 But as funny as anything that has ever been said, like screamingly funny, Awakenings, the portrayal he gives.

00:19:55.700 I actually like Robin Williams even better in dramatic performances than comedy.

00:19:59.620 And he's one of the funniest human beings ever alive.

00:20:04.060 So Awakenings.

00:20:05.140 Put it on the list.

00:20:05.740 Yes, fabulous.

00:20:06.740 All right.

00:20:08.020 The next two I view together.

00:20:10.680 Braveheart and Gladiator.

00:20:12.780 Both amazing.

00:20:14.380 No brainers.

00:20:15.900 Incredible.

00:20:17.840 Mel Gibson, Russell Crowe, right?

00:20:19.680 Yes.

00:20:20.020 Back to back.

00:20:20.900 How can you get that wrong?

00:20:22.160 And both standing and fighting and fighting against oppression.

00:20:28.280 And they're epic, epic movies.

00:20:31.980 Again, if you're not inspired by them, you're dead.

00:20:34.640 Yeah.

00:20:34.780 I will say, Mike Lee, there's an app where you can put yourself, you speaking, into an audio clip.

00:20:47.380 And he and I used to send things back and forth.

00:20:49.440 And, you know, at the end when Mel Gibson is being executed, he screams, Freedom!

00:20:57.480 So Mike would send me videos of him screaming to Mel Gibson's voice, Freedom.

00:21:03.020 It was pretty powerful.

00:21:05.480 All right.

00:21:06.120 Next.

00:21:07.320 Beverly Hills Cop.

00:21:09.100 Hands down, one of the funniest movies ever.

00:21:11.980 Just screamingly funny.

00:21:13.940 Eddie Murphy.

00:21:14.280 So you're going to laugh.

00:21:15.080 I consider that a Christmas movie because it's like days off.

00:21:17.780 I want to watch the classic.

00:21:19.460 I watch that.

00:21:20.140 It is every moment of it.

00:21:22.000 Eddie Murphy remains one of my favorite actors of all times.

00:21:25.680 He's got a new one coming out, a sequel coming out on Amazon.

00:21:30.060 I think it's on Amazon Prime.

00:21:31.560 Did you see that recently?

00:21:32.840 I just saw it this last week.

00:21:33.940 I don't know which one it was, but they were teasing it.

00:21:35.620 Yes.

00:21:35.820 They're doing a Beverly Hills Cop 2.

00:21:38.160 Okay.

00:21:38.440 Is that what it is?

00:21:39.000 Or 3.

00:21:39.620 Yeah.

00:21:40.160 But look, the original Beverly Hills Cop is screamingly funny.

00:21:44.540 And I actually have three Eddie Murphy movies in a row because I love Eddie Murphy.

00:21:48.900 Beverly Hills Cop.

00:21:49.740 Trading Places.

00:21:51.660 Yes.

00:21:52.140 And Coming to America. 0.65

00:21:53.020 So Coming to America was one of the first movies that was like really edgy that I remember

00:21:57.500 like in my adolescence seeing.

00:21:59.940 Hilarious.

00:22:00.660 Again, screamingly funny.

00:22:02.940 And Eddie Murphy and Arsenio Hall and they play multiple characters and all the different,

00:22:06.600 you know, in the barbershop when you have Eddie Murphy and Arsenio Hall going back and

00:22:10.320 forth.

00:22:10.640 I mean, it's amazing.

00:22:12.520 And you know what?

00:22:13.060 They probably wouldn't let you make that movie today.

00:22:14.940 No, they would not.

00:22:15.700 No way.

00:22:16.180 It gets racially edgy in a way that like now, you know, the woke world.

00:22:20.780 No, no, no.

00:22:21.020 You can't laugh about that.

00:22:21.980 Cancer culture would be all over that. 0.91

00:22:22.360 No, no, no.

00:22:22.720 You can't have any of that humor.

00:22:25.300 By the way, you want funny humor.

00:22:27.840 Go back to young Eddie Murphy on SNL when he was like 19 years old.

00:22:33.420 Brilliant and edgy.

00:22:34.140 And just edgy, comedic, like brilliance.

00:22:38.340 I love, he's by far my favorite character ever on SNL was young Eddie Murphy because

00:22:44.220 it was just so funny.

00:22:46.020 I like it.

00:22:46.960 Mine's Farley, by the way.

00:22:48.440 Look, he was, he was great and he put his hole into it.

00:22:52.300 Yeah.

00:22:53.220 I mean, I also love. 0.59

00:22:55.280 Fat man in a little jacket.

00:22:56.580 It's unbelievable. 0.98

00:22:57.400 That man down by the river.

00:22:58.820 I mean, but I also love like comedy when there's people falling over and he could do that

00:23:03.700 His physical comedy was really strong.

00:23:05.040 His physical comedy was incredible.

00:23:06.300 Yep.

00:23:06.900 All right.

00:23:07.340 Next on the list, Wall Street.

00:23:09.620 Yep.

00:23:10.260 Just all time Gordon Gekko.

00:23:12.580 Oh, yeah.

00:23:13.080 One of the great all time classics.

00:23:15.200 By the way, a line that I quote frequently, Gordon Gekko is in the locker room getting cleaned

00:23:21.800 up after playing racquetball and he turns to Charlie Sheen and he goes, I'm on the board

00:23:29.840 of the Bronx Zoo.

00:23:31.240 Cost me a million bucks.

00:23:32.420 That's the thing about wasps, love animals, hate people.

00:23:38.120 There's some insight there.

00:23:39.580 There is some insight there for sure.

00:23:41.740 Hidden Figures.

00:23:43.220 Yes.

00:23:44.040 Wonderful movie.

00:23:46.160 Incredible movie about the African-American female mathematicians who were foundational

00:23:52.320 to America going to the moon.

00:23:55.020 And for me, there are two kind of personal reasons why that movie is significant to me.

00:24:00.520 One, it's got to be because of Houston.

00:24:02.420 Well, when we went to see the movie, I took my mother to the movie. 0.90

00:24:05.740 I took Heidi to the movie.

00:24:06.660 I took both my daughters to the movie.

00:24:08.940 And it was interesting.

00:24:10.100 My girls, it was the first time they'd seen a movie that had segregation.

00:24:13.780 Yeah.

00:24:13.940 The bathroom is the most, one of the most iconic scenes in that whole movie.

00:24:17.100 And it led to, I had a long conversation with both of them and they were like, well, why

00:24:21.240 would people have done that?

00:24:22.380 And to talk about segregation and civil rights and just sort of walk through the history of

00:24:27.000 it, it prompted really good conversations with my girls.

00:24:30.440 But secondly, so my mom, my mom graduated from Rice in 1956 and she had a math degree and

00:24:40.660 she went to work as a computer programmer at Shell.

00:24:43.540 She subsequently went to work at the Smithsonian.

00:24:47.220 And you remember the movie Hidden Figures begins with Sputnik being launched and sort of the

00:24:52.540 space race being beginning.

00:24:54.760 One of my mother's first assignments at the Smithsonian was to help compute the orbits 0.97

00:25:00.060 of Sputnik.

00:25:00.660 And, and so in front of the girls, I asked my mom, I said, mom, you were doing this.

00:25:06.700 And in fact, you were doing it 10 years earlier.

00:25:08.440 You were doing it in the fifties.

00:25:10.080 Hidden Figures is set in the sixties.

00:25:11.760 And I said, how accurate is it?

00:25:14.200 And my mother thought it was very accurate, that it did a really good job of conveying what

00:25:18.980 it was like to be a woman in, in space and science and, and a technical environment.

00:25:25.460 And I commented to her, I said, okay, one of the strange things to a more modern ear is

00:25:35.840 that they referred to the women there as computers.

00:25:38.440 Yeah.

00:25:38.740 And we think of a computer as a piece of metal.

00:25:41.440 But they were actually called computers because they were actually doing the math.

00:25:44.920 And my mother started laughing at me and she said her first job title was computer.

00:25:50.760 And when she started at Shell, she had a business card that said Eleanor Dara computer.

00:25:56.000 No way.

00:25:56.800 And so in response to that, I introduced legislation to rename the street in front of NASA headquarters

00:26:05.800 Hidden Figures Way.

00:26:07.400 And this is actually a really cool story.

00:26:09.160 I introduced that legislation before it could pass and we would have gotten it passed.

00:26:14.660 But a DC city councilman saw that legislation and said, you know what?

00:26:18.360 That's a great idea.

00:26:19.820 And the DC city councilman introduced it in the DC city council.

00:26:23.620 The guy's a Democrat.

00:26:24.520 Yeah.

00:26:24.780 And he got it passed.

00:26:26.060 So the DC city council passes it.

00:26:28.180 That's cool.

00:26:28.880 So I went to the street sign dedication and that is the street sign there.

00:26:32.660 And I was there.

00:26:33.300 I spoke at the dedication.

00:26:33.960 And where is it?

00:26:34.920 It is the headquarters of NASA in DC.

00:26:37.280 In DC.

00:26:37.720 Okay, cool.

00:26:38.340 And so NASA, the address of NASA is One Hidden Figures Way.

00:26:42.120 That's awesome.

00:26:42.600 So I spoke at the dedication.

00:26:44.060 The DC city councilman spoke and he's a Democrat.

00:26:46.160 I'm a Republican.

00:26:46.680 And I told the story of my mom, which was really cool to get to tell.

00:26:51.460 And I said, look, at some level, you might say, listen, the street sign's not that big

00:26:55.560 a deal.

00:26:56.520 That one is.

00:26:57.140 But at another level, you know, 50 years from now, 100 years from now, some little girl,

00:27:02.280 some little boy is going to come visit NASA and they're going to look up and see the

00:27:06.120 street sign and they're going to say, hey, what does that mean?

00:27:09.140 Yeah.

00:27:09.600 And they're going to hear the story of the pioneering African-American women who were the mathematicians

00:27:16.340 that got us to the moon.

00:27:17.560 And so it's where movies and stories are powerful.

00:27:21.560 Did any of the characters of the movie, did any of them get to come to that?

00:27:25.160 That they did.

00:27:25.600 They had passed by the time we did that.

00:27:27.420 So no.

00:27:28.260 All right.

00:27:28.660 We just got a few more.

00:27:30.720 Schindler's List.

00:27:32.320 One of the hardest movies to watch.

00:27:34.640 Yes.

00:27:35.420 The other one is that I can, I've only watched it one time because I just can't bring myself

00:27:39.520 to watch it again is Lone Survivor.

00:27:42.300 Those two movies to me are must sees, but I just, I don't know if it's because I become

00:27:47.420 a dad and having kids now and watching the kids.

00:27:50.840 I just can't watch them like I used to.

00:27:52.520 So as you know, a couple of weeks ago I was at Normandy for the 80th anniversary of D-Day

00:27:58.380 and wildly enough I got to meet Steven Spielberg and Tom Hanks, which was really cool.

00:28:03.660 And I had pretty extended conversations with both of them and they've done, look, their

00:28:07.600 politics are both left of center, but they've done an amazing job really honoring and telling

00:28:12.480 the stories of the greatest generation, whether Saving Private Ryan, whether Band of Brothers,

00:28:18.640 whether The Pacific.

00:28:19.380 And so we're talking about that and I was talking with Spielberg about Schindler's List

00:28:24.720 and just, you know, talking with the heroes, the World War II heroes who almost all say,

00:28:33.420 well, I could have done more.

00:28:34.900 I could have done more and the real heroes are under those crosses behind us.

00:28:39.660 And I was telling Spielberg, I said, hearing them say that reminds me of the end of Schindler's

00:28:45.820 list where Oscar Schindler is like, I could have done more.

00:28:49.780 And he looks down at his gold watch and he said, this watch, this watch could have saved

00:28:53.560 three more people.

00:28:55.000 Three more people are dead because I kept my watch.

00:28:59.040 And you think about the heroism of his rescuing Jews from the Nazis and the incredible courage,

00:29:04.200 but at the same time, the like, why didn't I do even more?

00:29:07.940 And then that, that to me is the most beautiful moment of that movie is the, the, the, the sort

00:29:12.560 of.

00:29:13.560 Did I do enough?

00:29:14.660 Yeah.

00:29:16.700 Okay.

00:29:17.080 I'm going to take a detour, a detour to the world of musicals.

00:29:22.460 So I like musicals.

00:29:24.100 Do you like Broadway?

00:29:25.300 I do.

00:29:25.760 I love Broadway.

00:29:26.840 Absolutely.

00:29:27.280 So like you, if you go to New York, you would put it on your list to go see a show.

00:29:30.980 I love Broadway and I'm going to have four musicals on here.

00:29:33.920 I'm ready.

00:29:34.660 So number one is, is my father's favorite movie of all time, which is My Fair Lady.

00:29:40.180 Okay.

00:29:40.680 And My Fair Lady is fantastic. 0.98

00:29:42.880 I've seen it because of my mom and my sister multiple times.

00:29:46.080 Why can't the English?

00:29:47.200 I've never watched it outside of this.

00:29:48.020 Teach their children how to speak.

00:29:52.020 Norwegians learn Norwegians.

00:29:53.400 The Greeks are taught their Greek.

00:29:55.520 See, this is why I said this show would be entertaining because I would have never thought

00:29:59.760 you were a musical.

00:30:00.520 Oh.

00:30:00.980 It is spectacular.

00:30:02.120 Favorite Broadway show you've ever been to.

00:30:03.760 I'm going to get to that.

00:30:04.480 Okay, go ahead.

00:30:04.880 I'm going to get to that.

00:30:06.020 So the second one there is Oliver.

00:30:08.100 Yep.

00:30:09.300 Great.

00:30:10.420 Oliver is spectacular.

00:30:11.960 So look, I was, in high school, I was president of the drama club.

00:30:15.660 I have way too many one-liners, but I'll leave that for another show.

00:30:18.320 Keep going.

00:30:18.920 You were captain of the tennis team.

00:30:20.540 I was president of the drama club.

00:30:21.680 Okay, I get that.

00:30:22.620 There's a reason why you would have stuck me in the locker if we had known each other.

00:30:26.080 Yes, yes.

00:30:26.820 That would have gotten you a smackdown for sure. 0.99

00:30:29.100 Yeah, yeah.

00:30:29.240 But, so look, I, all politicians are frustrated actors.

00:30:34.180 It's just, it's just part of the, it is.

00:30:37.020 Did you act in high school?

00:30:37.880 Oh yes, a lot.

00:30:39.020 What were you in?

00:30:39.880 So I did.

00:30:40.860 Do we have eight tracks of this or what was it?

00:30:43.600 A beta cam?

00:30:44.280 Um, they, they, they're, they may be somewhere.

00:30:46.640 Okay.

00:30:47.280 Um, so let's see.

00:30:48.300 I've done Sound of Music twice.

00:30:50.220 What'd you play?

00:30:51.000 So I played, the first time I played Rolf.

00:30:53.560 Yeah.

00:30:54.360 Uh, you know, and I warbled out, you are 16 going on 17.

00:30:58.820 No way.

00:31:00.100 And then the second time I played Max.

00:31:01.640 Yep.

00:31:03.080 Um, I also, so I did Oliver and Oliver's a fabulous show.

00:31:09.200 It's a classic, yeah.

00:31:09.600 So Oliver was my senior year and the head of the music department told me, Hey, we're

00:31:13.660 doing Oliver next year.

00:31:14.680 And, and he said, you know, I'd love to have you play Fagin if you can sing it.

00:31:20.520 And, and my curse, look, I am a terrible singer.

00:31:22.900 I cannot carry a tune to save my, in a bucket.

00:31:26.380 Yeah.

00:31:26.480 Like, like, I wish I could.

00:31:28.440 I, I have singing envy.

00:31:29.220 You were not given that, neither was I.

00:31:30.860 It, it, it, and so I actually went and for like six months I took voice lessons to try

00:31:35.860 to get, be able to sing.

00:31:38.260 Fagin is such a fabulous role.

00:31:39.340 Did you get any better in the six months?

00:31:41.260 A little bit.

00:31:42.360 Yeah.

00:31:42.680 And, and so what happened and the nice thing about Fagin is, is Fagin's songs.

00:31:49.660 Fagin's songs are more spoken than sang.

00:31:56.380 So for example, the song reviewing the situation, a man's got a heart, hasn't he?

00:32:03.880 Joking apart, hasn't he?

00:32:07.660 And though I'd be the first to admit that I wasn't a saint, I'm finding it hard to be

00:32:13.080 really as bad.

00:32:14.780 So you're going to see your dad next time.

00:32:15.780 I'm going to say those six months is worth it now, right?

00:32:17.660 But I'm reviewing the situation.

00:32:23.200 Can a fellow be a villain all his life?

00:32:26.240 All the trials.

00:32:27.480 I now I'm not worried about you after you retire.

00:32:29.780 I know what you're going to do.

00:32:30.440 Better settle down and get myself a wife. 1.00

00:32:33.820 And, uh.

00:32:35.220 You remember it.

00:32:36.000 Life will cook and sew for you and come for you and go for you and go for you and nag at 1.00

00:32:40.700 you.

00:32:41.020 The finger she will wag at you. 1.00

00:32:42.860 How many tickets they sell for this is what I really want to know.

00:32:46.280 So I prepared.

00:32:49.180 That song was one.

00:32:50.520 Now it's mostly spoken.

00:32:51.720 It's not really.

00:32:52.760 So I could do it marginally competently after six months practicing.

00:32:57.820 I did that at the tryout.

00:32:59.620 And then I say and then afterwards, music director said, hey, Ted, stick around.

00:33:03.640 And he went to the piano and he said, sing this.

00:33:05.760 And he went.

00:33:06.640 And I went.

00:33:08.140 And he did it like three times.

00:33:10.240 He goes, OK. 0.99

00:33:11.460 I'm like, damn it. 0.99

00:33:12.300 Not happening. 0.99

00:33:13.040 So I was cast as Bill Sykes.

00:33:14.720 It's the second male lead with no singing.

00:33:17.640 Yeah.

00:33:18.300 It's a fun role.

00:33:19.120 You're the villain.

00:33:19.820 You get to, like, beat up Oliver Twist and like you're it.

00:33:22.540 But but I wanted to give it your all.

00:33:25.220 I wanted to play that role badly.

00:33:27.760 And and I did not get it.

00:33:29.240 All right.

00:33:30.400 Two more musicals.

00:33:34.920 Hamilton, which is utterly exquisite.

00:33:37.940 I've seen it multiple times.

00:33:39.640 It is brilliant.

00:33:41.480 It is beautiful.

00:33:42.380 It is powerful.

00:33:44.100 My girls know the songs. 1.00

00:33:45.640 There are few things that make me happier than when my daughters are singing songs from

00:33:49.180 Hamilton.

00:33:50.460 I mean, it was there was a period where they were obsessed with it.

00:33:52.880 You and I were talking about this the other day.

00:33:54.220 My dad, I took him to New York for the first time ever for his 70th birthday.

00:33:57.340 And you said, did you go see a show?

00:33:59.240 And I was like, do you want to see Hamilton?

00:34:00.880 He's like, I'd rather go to the Yankees game.

00:34:02.480 And then the next night I was like, would you say, I'd rather have a nice meal.

00:34:05.720 I tried hard.

00:34:06.720 I tried to get him to Hamilton.

00:34:08.060 It just wasn't on the list.

00:34:09.420 And then my favorite music of all time is Les Mis.

00:34:12.220 Really?

00:34:12.620 And I love Les Mis.

00:34:14.100 I think.

00:34:14.560 Do you get choked up?

00:34:15.560 Be honest.

00:34:16.660 Because I'm a sucker for those things. 0.58

00:34:18.220 I get the lump in the throat.

00:34:19.400 I get completely choked up.

00:34:19.880 Yeah.

00:34:20.120 All right.

00:34:20.280 So what song gets you choked up?

00:34:21.800 Oh, the one that the most famous.

00:34:23.520 I'm terrible with.

00:34:24.160 And it's the one that Anne Hathaway does.

00:34:26.800 It's so good.

00:34:27.480 Oh, and she won the Academy Award for it.

00:34:30.500 Every time it gets me.

00:34:31.540 So that is beautiful.

00:34:32.780 I'll tell you, the two that get me choked up are number one when John Valjean is saying,

00:34:39.500 let him live.

00:34:40.600 Yep. 0.99

00:34:40.940 And he's looking down, and he says, you know, if I die, let me die. 0.93

00:34:47.920 Yeah. 0.97

00:34:49.080 Let him live.

00:34:50.140 Yeah.

00:34:50.260 And it's a prayer to God to let him live.

00:34:53.300 Every time.

00:34:54.160 I have tears every time.

00:34:55.560 And the other one that gets me is the song Empty Chairs and Empty Tables at the end when

00:35:02.700 everyone has died.

00:35:03.720 And I will confess at the end of the presidential campaign in 2016, as I walked through the empty

00:35:08.700 campaign office and I saw the empty chairs and empty tables, I heard the refrains of that

00:35:14.920 song.

00:35:15.420 So Les Mis is exquisite.

00:35:21.520 All right.

00:35:21.960 By the way, when I was, all right, so 1993, I was just finished my first year of law school

00:35:28.380 and I had a job in New York.

00:35:29.680 I was working in a law firm in New York for the summer.

00:35:32.080 And I decided to fly my mom to New York for the weekend.

00:35:37.860 And so it's 1993.

00:35:39.260 So I actually FedExed a plane ticket.

00:35:41.240 And this is back when a plane ticket was a piece of cardboard.

00:35:44.080 I FedExed a plane ticket to her with nothing else.

00:35:47.260 It was literally, she opened the FedEx package and just a plane ticket to New York fell out.

00:35:50.960 And she called me and she's like, Ted, I assume this is you.

00:35:52.800 I said, yeah.

00:35:53.440 I had no note, no nothing, just a plane ticket and the FedEx thing.

00:35:56.180 Get on the plane.

00:35:56.760 I'll see you soon, mom.

00:35:57.520 So I flew her to New York and we went out to dinner at Boulay, which at the time was

00:36:01.700 the nicest restaurant in New York, was fabulous.

00:36:04.500 And then I took her one night to see Camelot, which was really fun.

00:36:07.920 Yep.

00:36:08.380 And then the next night to see Les Mis.

00:36:10.180 And did she love it?

00:36:11.100 She loved it.

00:36:12.020 And I...

00:36:12.940 That's one of those ironed memories for us in life.

00:36:15.440 Yeah.

00:36:15.620 No, no, that was just very cool to go do that.

00:36:19.340 All right.

00:36:20.360 So we have a total of three more.

00:36:23.620 I'm going to say The Magnificent Seven.

00:36:25.820 Incredible.

00:36:26.420 Watched it 10 times.

00:36:27.300 The original one.

00:36:28.080 Yes, with my dad.

00:36:29.160 All right, all right.

00:36:29.760 That's like in my dad's, like, I grew up on John Wayne and war movies.

00:36:33.820 Yeah, like Magnificent Seven.

00:36:35.280 And that was like, I remember watching it with him.

00:36:36.820 Other than Unforgiven, Magnificent Seven is the greatest Western that's actually originally

00:36:40.540 in a Western.

00:36:41.160 Unforgiven was sort of a modern remake format, but Magnificent Seven, exquisite with, you

00:36:46.700 know, Ewell Brenner and Charles Bronson and James Coburn.

00:36:51.940 Oh, when Mom was out of town, that was one of the movies we watched.

00:36:54.420 Oh, it was so good.

00:36:55.340 It's a fabulous movie.

00:36:58.300 And then I'm going to end with two.

00:37:01.020 Quentin Tarantino.

00:37:02.600 Is it the Inglorious Bastards?

00:37:04.160 Is that where we're going with this?

00:37:05.220 So I'm going to start with Pulp Fiction.

00:37:06.660 Okay.

00:37:07.100 Which is fantastic.

00:37:08.340 And then the last one is Inglorious Bastards.

00:37:09.980 Yep.

00:37:10.200 And I feel bad that I left Reservoir Dogs off because Reservoir Dogs is exquisite too.

00:37:15.060 But the other ones are above, yeah.

00:37:16.420 But if you made me pick two, I go with Pulp Fiction and Inglorious.

00:37:19.980 Inglorious Bastards is a spectacular movie.

00:37:21.580 Spectacular movie.

00:37:22.220 So that's 25 movies, which if you've got some down time, download them, watch them.

00:37:29.180 You will enjoy them.

00:37:30.160 You will laugh.

00:37:31.000 You will be moved.

00:37:31.960 You will be.

00:37:32.800 And send your critiques on Twitter.

00:37:34.340 We'll take them.

00:37:35.440 And let me ask you one other question.

00:37:37.280 If you could only take one movie and one TV series to a desert island with you, what would

00:37:41.820 you pick?

00:37:42.900 Only one movie and only one TV series.

00:37:45.360 That's all you got to watch.

00:37:47.060 The Princess Bride and Criminal Minds. 1.00

00:37:48.720 There you go.

00:37:49.560 That's it.

00:37:50.120 Yeah.

00:37:50.520 I like it.

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Verdict with Ted Cruz - February 14, 2025

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